Economic Development: Provinces

Newcomers Dept: On Friday, Immigration Minister Charles Sousa announced a 13-member expert panel whose job is to come up with recommendations that best support Ontario s economic development and help newcomers find jobs, according to The Star. The decline is primarily a result of other provinces strong economies and aggressive marketing campaigns, as well as Ottawa s move to evenly spread immigrants across the country and ontario will develop its first-ever immigration strategy to compete for newcomers against provinces in the booming Prairies. Although the province remains the number one destination for newcomers to Canada, the number of immigrants settling in the province has declined by 21 per cent from a peak of 148,640 in 2001 to 118,114 in 2010. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.